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A17917	Three sermons The former discouering a double and false heart, vpon the I. King. 21. 9. and 10. The second called, the blessednes of the righteous, vpon Psalm. 37. verse 37. The third, the court of guard, or watch of angels: I, Sam. 17. 37. By Nathaniel Cannon, Preacher of Gods Word at Hurley in Berkeshire.	Cannon, Nathanael, 1581 or 2-1664.	1616 (1616)	STC 4578; ESTC S117074	22,426	70

Mendaci ne credas ne iurantiquidem thou hast lost thy birth-right for the lyars cannot call God their Father for they haue a father by themselues euen the diuell who is the father of lies t Iohn 8.44 stay therefore these beginnings lest the latter end proue fearefull vnto thee for thou canst not shake of these things when thou wilt and therefore doe it when thou mayest Consuetudo est altera natura take heede of a custome in euill for a Blackemoore shall sooner change his hue or a Leopard his spots then they shall euer doe good that haue been accustomed vnto euill u Ier. 13.23 So then let vs conclude this vse cure the disease in time before it grow incurable whether it be pride enuie slander disobedience deceit oppression reuenge prophanenesse adulteries falshoods murmurings treacherous practises or the like clense thy heart in time lest thou become incorrigible and inconuertible which must needes be damnable in the latter end Vse 2. This serues to display the diuels hatred vnto mankind who doth not onely seeke like a Lion whom to deuoure but also is alwaies tempting vs to deuoure w 1. Peter 5. one another as here Iezabel hath nothing to ease her stomack withall but blood and reuenge thus we deuoure one another as if man who is created after the Image of God were of no more account but presently vpon our priuat discontentments and grudges to butcher them vp as if we were Canibals euen to feede vpon our brethren and to drinke vp their blood as it were in boules Hence it is that if any man stand in our way or in our light wee conclude him presentlie and either by potion or some other sinister practise wee pronounce him dead so little account doe wee make of that blood which is so pretious in the eyes of God thus wee fall one vpon another vpon a displeasure as Caine doth vpon Abel x Genes 4.8 and ease our stomacks and haue our desires forgetting that blood must haue blood and that it cries for vengeance against vs this is the Diuels mallice against vs who stirres vppe after this manner Wilt thou endure and pocket vp these wronges wilt thou bee accounted base minded and wilt not maintaine thy reputation this is rhetorique and the rule is that the lie deserueth the stabbe that it is honourable and the tryall of an Heroicall spirite to enter into single combate and their honour is their life and these Maximes maketh them like fierce Tigers one against another so cruell are wee growne so dangerous the times as that Ieremies caution may well bee our obseruation for our latter times y Ier. 9.4 Take you heede euerie one of his neighbour and trust you not in any Brother for they will vtterly supplant and destroy one another Thus vindicta vindicta is our cōmon place among the common people yea nobler brests haue been set on fire with reuenge as if the blood and death of innocents would not as wel cry for vengeance against them as against other men but he that lookes into the booke of God finds that the greater the offender is in this kind the greater the punishment hath bin not one of Ahabs house shall bee left to make water against the wall and as for Iezabel her selfe the very dogs shall licke their lips after her blood and be glutted with it let this therefore but especially the feare of the Lord temper our passions so guide our vnderstandings that we giue not place vnto the diuell z Ephes 4. in these so deadly and damnable enterprizes Vse 3. This serues for our animaduersion as concerning the condition of them that thus proceede in the degrees of finne surely their iudgement sleepeth not but increaseth as their sins are enlarged Hell is said to be enlarged with these augmentators for they are vpon the skore and it runs vpon the reckoning vntill the Lord come to render vnto euery man according to his works the mercifull Aduocate Iesus Christ the righteous pleadeth the causes of all penitent sinners a 1. Iohn 2.1 but these men in their hearts that cannot repent heape vnto themselues wrath against the day of wrath and declaration of the vengeance and iudgement of God who as the Apostle saith will render it vnto them b Ro. 2.5.6 This is a fearefull condition for if euery sinne in his owne nature deserue death and that is the wages of it 1 Rom. 6.23 how then shall these men answere the many thousand sins that haue been committed by them without feeling The Apostle shewes that the destruction of such men sleepeth not d 1. Pet. 2.2.3 The Lord will awaken vnto them and suddenly come with the account they haue beene long inthe action but their destruction shall sweepe them away in a moment and their confusion must be of longer continuance for as they haue beene continuall transgressors so must they be continually tormented with flames vnquenchable with horror vnspeakable loe thus they stand or rather fall who doe not thinke our God is iust to recompence their wickednesse When they are ripe or rather rotten in their sinnes then comes the dreadfull haruest they shall bee serued as God threatneth the Amorites e Gen. 15.14 When they haue filled vp the measure of their sinnes then shall they be rooted out saith the Lord. This is the same which was declared vnto Amos in a Vision f Amos 8.1 ● where hee saw a basket of Sommer fruite whereby is meant ripenesse or the time that the fruite should be gathered Now saith the Lord the end is come I will passe by this people no more Let this be considered O yee men of earth the God of heauen will not be mocked and therfore be not you deceiued whatsoeuer sins are newly committed doe not thinke the old sinnes are forgotten vnlesse thou be a new man then thy sins of old shall not be imputed vnto thee g Psal 32.1 otherwise it will goe hard against vs vnlesse that garment of righteousnesse couer vs the Lord will write bitter things against vs and make vs to possesse the iniquities of our youth h Iob 14.26 Vse 4 Seeing the wicked grow worse and worse let the righteous worke by contraries let them grow better and better from grace to grace from vertue to vertue Let them proceed in goodnes Christians ought to be Graduates in godlinesse as the other doe in wickednesse let them bee the Lords Graduates and proceede in that famous Vniuersitie of Sion euen in the Church of God of this proceeding the Propher Dauid speaketh in the Psalms i Psal 84.7 The righteous grow from strength to strength vntill they appeare before God in Sion there they are to bee presented and there it is that they shall bee eternized let them therefore begin with godlines and ende with golinesse and they shall not loose their labour for it hath the promises both of this life and the life to come k 1. Tim. 4.8 proceede therefore O you Saints and seruants of the Lord you feare the Lord they that doe so neede to feare nothing else keepe your inheritance it is farre beyond Naboaths Vineyard Iezabel shall not hurt you the gates of hell shall not preuaile against you the Kingdome of heauen is prepared for you and for all those that loue the comming of the Lord Iesus Christ to whom with the Father and the most blessed Spirit one eternall immortall inuisible and God onely wise be praise and dominion with al glorious ascription now and for euermore Amen FINIS

deuision of the Text into three parts 1. Naboaths death 2. The meanes of his death 3. The colouring of his death 1. His death is decreed aforehand stone him to death saith Iezabel she wil haue it according to the desperate rule Sic volo sic iubeo stet pro ratione voluntas 2. The meanes of his death by subornation of false witnesse Set two wicked men before him saith she and let them accuse him of blasphemie against God and the King answerable to that Popish proposition as Heathenish as the former inra periurasecretum prodere noli 3. The pretended color for the lamenting of his death Proclaime a fast as if shee did commiserate the mans case and as if he had been iustly condemned and that shee for his better preparation to his death would haue this fast proclaimed partly to haue it conceiued that shee and others were sorrowfull for his death but chiefly that by meanes of such an Assembly and so holy any action as fasting was shee would haue it appeare that shee did it to no other end but onely to bring Naboath to a feeling of his fault as if he had deserued death and shee great commendations for this charitie and compassion towards him in prouiding thus religiously as shee would haue it thought for his peaceable departure Thus the Camelion cast her colour and this miste must arise to make many fall into error she hauing concluded that it was enough to make this shew Et satis est potuisse videri Thus wee haue taken the Scripture asunder let vs desire God to ioyne with vs in the enlargement of the whole And for asmuch as the last part of this deuision are the first words of this Text I will therefore begin with them and so take them in their course as they lie in order Proclaime a fast Simulata sanctitas est duplex iniquitas saith Austin Augustin in Psalm 36. a dissembled holines is double vngodlinesse It had been wickednes to shed innocent blood and falsely to condemne cruelly murder the harmelesse and guiltlesse man but thus to trick it vp color it vnder pretence of pity doubles the impietie But here is matter of great amazement comming forth to meet vs. For first of all it is a trembling businesse no question to the wicked themselues to shed blood for it quakes nature and excludes grace and cries for vengeance and proues alwaies so discouerable that as wee see by daily experience God suffers neither time nor place nor greatnesse to couer the blood that is so barbarouslie shed would not all these stay the hand or stagger the heart it is more then a miracle vnto vs Secondly it is no lesse to be wondered at that the nature of sinne should grow to bee so desperate as to make choise of the most sanctified actions for their colourable protections For example What action can there be more leading vnto true sanctification then our mortification What leadeth more vnto mortification then religiously and sincerely from the bottome of the heart to hold a religious fast vnto the Lord. Behold it is here but a vizard to produce a most monstrous and prodigious acte Heare O Heauens and hearken O Earth and maruell O yee sonnes of men at this impudency O who should dare to prophane such deuine actions as these are but only those who are incurable and so vtterly incorrigible as that they care not though they act the Diuels owne part Iudas kisseth Christ c Luk. 22.48 but hides his treason and so Iezabel proclaimes a Fast but hides the knife from Naboaths that must giue him his death The Panther Plin. nat hist lib. 8. as Pliny reporteth carrieth with him a sweete sent but an vgly force therefore he hides his talents vntil he haue the pray within danger In like manner Iezabel will sucke the blood of Naboath and yet shee hides this venome vnder a fast proclaime a fast saith shee from whence we may draw this obseruation Doctrin 10 Euery sinne will shelter it selfe vnder some pretence There are no perquisities of lasting and certaine tenure but onely those which a crew from vertue notwithstanding so quick is our apprehension in the point of profit and our wils so absolute in the doing of euill that though shame run by vs like a lacky and confusion prooue the close and full point of our deriuations yet will the wicked proceede and verily perswade themselues there can be no quare impedit either to hinder or cut off them or their designes But it were a necessary question to demand of them why they disguise themselues Aristot Quaedam videntur non sunt why they are like Aristotles videnturs who affirmes that there are many things seemes to be that which they are not The answere will aford it selfe for by their shadowes mists and colours that they cast they doe deceiue the people whereas if they came in the proper resemblance of their deformed courses they would bee more then monstrous in the eyes of the people and therefore our Sauiour speakes of these pretences when hee shewes that there are some that haue put on sheepes clothing but inwardly they are rauening Wolues Sinne ashamed of it selfe where we may see the hatefulnesse of sin that it dares not bee seene in his owne likenesse but must assume another shape for it the which let me now endeuour to proue from the Scriptures as formerly I proposed it in the doctrine namely that euery sinne will shelter it selfe vnder some pretence The Scribes and Pharisies who were party coluored in all their actions and clouen-footed in all their treadings did many foule and fearefull things vnder pretences but amongst all others how ill did they vse poore widdowes Christ saith That they deuoured widowes houses d Ma. 23.14 How did they deuoure thē euē vnder the pretēce of long praiers It was a fearefull thing to offer violence vnto them aboue al others for God commandeth vs to helpe them to comfort them and to bee a father to their fatherles and the Apostle shewes that this is as the euidence of our religion e Iam. 1.27 pure religion and vndefiled before God is to visit the fatherles and widowes so that to do them wrong were hatefull but to oppresse them or to draw blood frō thē vnder pretence of some prayers most damnable for so Christ affirmeth therefore saith he your damnation is greater because of your monstrous hypocrisie f Iohn 12.6 Iudas also puts on his cloake to his couetousnes as appeareth in the Gospell This oyntment saith he would haue been sold and the money giuen to the poore O what a faire pretence is this who will or can dislike that man which shall speak for the poore but God knew his heart that it was not vpright He care for the poore No such matter let them starue sinke or swimme it was all one to him This he said saith the Text not that hee cared for the poore